Apparently there's a downside to fame. No, seriously, I've found one. It's that when the location of your home is in the papers every day, together with handy pictures in case anyone gets lost, people have a tendency to know where you live. Which is an even bigger problem when the same papers are letting everyone in the world know you're on holiday at the moment.
Because, yes, with Amy Winehouse famously sunning herself in the Caribbean, and her famous Camden flat therefore unoccupied, thieves last week seized on the opportunity to nick her stuff. Neighbours called police to the property in the early hours of Thursday morning, after two men were seen kicking the door in.
Police confirmed on Friday that they had been called to Winehouse's flat and had found that property had been stolen from it. A spokesman said that "a number" of items had already been recovered, but would not give further details, except to say that "the premises were secured and are now being forensically examined. The property was unoccupied".
Winehouse's spokesman Chris Goodman said that the singer was "disappointed" at the break in but "relieved" that her favourite guitar was with her in St Lucia at the time.
Elsewhere from the file marked 'Amy Winehouse's stuff', news that the singer has agreed to give her parents control over her estimated £15 million fortune in an arrangement that mirrors that that exists between Britney and her father (though that, of course, was originally court enforced, though Spears does seem to have since willingly supported the continuation of the set up).
According to the Sunday Mirror, Amy will now not be able to spend her cash without first getting the permission off one of her parents, so mother Janis or father Mitch. The tab quotes a source thus: "Mitch convinced Amy she needs a safety valve for the money for her own good - to stop her doing anything rash or daft. She can be very impetuous and the family wanted to protect her. She cannot make a sudden decision. Everyone is pleased because it means Amy is listening to good advice. It's still her money and nobody else can touch it. It is evidence that Amy is really turning her life around".
That news follows tabloid reports Winehouse was running up significant tabs in bars in St Lucia, mainly by buying loads of strangers drinks.